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Lancer

Type

Role

Guildmaster

Arms

Job

Job master(s)

There exist myriad fighting styles, each of which has its own unique qualities. None, however, can claim to be as offensively minded as ours. Our approach is ever one of attack, no matter who─or what─we face. An experienced lancer is able to wield a polearm as if it were an extension of his body. He transforms into a raging storm before his foes, delivering a barrage of devastating thrusts and slashes. In order to facilitate such a relentless offense, we lancers favor armor of leather and chainmail─such things as provide adequate protection without sacrificing mobility. The measure of a lancer's worth is truly quite simple: how swiftly and decisively he can pierce the enemy's defenses.

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The strategy of the lancers is to out-range and fluster opponents with their long, two-handed polearms, peppering them with a barrage of thrusting attacks. They are trained with a number of weapons, giving a diversity to their attacks that makes them extremely versatile combatants.

In former times, the longspear saw the most widespread use, due in great part to the influence of the proud lancer legions of Ala Mhigo. Since then, the guild has greatly expanded its armories to include a variety of weaponry, such as the throwing javelin.

—Lodestone

Lancers attack with spears and are regarded as Damage Dealing classes. They specialize on dealing heavy spike damage to single targets by attacking them from their flanks or backs or damaging multiple enemies at once when they are surrounded or packed tightly in line formations.

Lancers have the most weaponskills of any Discipline of War, and have plenty of combination attacks as well. Although they do not possess many standard abilities, the abilities they do have focus on restoring their own HP and TP supply.

Of all the things that are symbolic of the nation of Ishgard, few are more recognized than the dragoon. Born amidst the timeless conflict between men and dragons, these lance-wielding knights have developed an aerial style of combat, that they might better pierce the scaled hides of their mortal foes.

Taking to the firmament as though it were an extension of the land, they descend upon the enemy with every ounce of their bodies behind the blow. It is this penetrative power that characterizes the dragoon.

In terms of late game armor, Lancers and Dragoons wear "Maiming"/"Slaying" gear sets. Their armor is heavier than other DPS classes, though not as heavy as tanks. Up until Patch 2.45, most of the armor for Lancers and Dragoons typically traded off magic defense for higher defense. This caused major balance issues with later endgame content (which often had party-wide magical attacks) that made Dragoons undesirable in parties, and as such the magic defense was increased to match other DPS classes.

2.5sBase value; the higher the character's Skill Speed stat, the lower the recast time will be

60

3y

0y

LNC (DRG)

Delivers an attack with a potency of 100.Combo Action: DisembowelCombo Potency: 200, deals 250 potency when delivered from behind target.Combo Bonus: Damage over time with potency of 35 for 30s (combined total potency of 600).

Dragonfire Dive

50Complete the quest Double Dragoon

Ability

Instant

120s

-

20y

5y

DRG

Delivers a jumping fire-based attack with a potency of 250 to all nearby enemies.Cannot be executed while bound.

Battle Litany

52Complete the quest Days of Azure

Ability

Instant

180s

-

??y

??y

DRG

Increases critical hit rate of self and party members by 15%. Duration 20s.

Blood of the Dragon

54Complete the quest Sworm Upon a Lance

Ability

Instant

60s

-

0y

0y

DRG

Increases potency of Jump and Spineshatter Dive by 30% for 15s.Additional Effect: Grants Sharper Fang and Claw or Enhanced Wheeling Thrust for 10s when completing a combo with Chaos Thrust or Full Thrust. These two effects end upon reuse of Blood of the Dragon or using any skill that is not Fang and Claw or Wheeling Thrust.

Fang and Claw

56Complete the quest Dragoon's Errand

Ability

Instant

2.5s

60

0y

0y

DRG

Delivers an attack with a potency of 200. 290 when executed from a target's flank. Can only be executed while under the effect of both Blood of the Dragon and Sharper Fang and Claw.Additional Effect: Extends Blood of the Dragon duration by 15s to a maximum of 30s.

Delivers an attack with a potency of 200. 290 when executed from a target's rear. Can only be executed while under the effect of both Blood of the Dragon and Enhanced Wheeling Thrust.Additional Effect: Extends Blood of the Dragon duration by 15s to a maximum of 30s.

Geirskogul

60Complete the quest Dragoon's Fate

Ability

Instant

10s

0

15y

4y

DRG

Delivers an attack with a potency of 200 to all enemies in a straight line before you. Can only be executed when under the effect of Blood of the Dragon.Additional Effect: Reduces the duration of Blood of the Dragon by 10s.

[view·edit·purge]A lancer was a type of cavalryman who fought with a lance. Lances were used in mounted warfare by the Assyrians as early as 700 BC and subsequently by Greek, Persian, Gallic, Han-Chinese, nomadic and Roman horsemen. The weapon was widely used in Asia and Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by armoured cavalry, before being adopted by light cavalry, particularly in Eastern Europe. In a modern context, a lancer regiment usually denotes an armoured regiment.

In the Final Fantasy series, a lancer is usually synonymous with Dragoon.

Unlike previous uses of the term "Lancer" as an alternate localization for the Dragoon job class, here it is a literal translation of a separate class (though it does "upgrade" into it).

Despite the official in-game description of the Lancer stating it can out-range opponents, the range of spears are no different than that of swords and axes used by the other melee classes.

Square Enix's Eorzea Cafe serves a dish called "Dragoon's pasta ~Sakura style~" with a description that translates to: A plate of pasta inspired by the flashes of pink in fields of green left by the "Dragoon's" Cherry Blossom ability. A Dragoon's spear has been thrust into this mix of fresh spinach pasta, cherry blossoms, and sakura shrimp!